1 March 72 St David's Day and they're all going to school in Wales bearing daffodils and leeks and there will be singing in the Assembly Hall and competitions and a great many will get drunk tonight except me of course.

Off the lead in Leeds

Tom Holt was considering the state of the sitcom back in 1979. The Stage and Television Today (1st March 1979)

Up to South Yorkshire next, and Sheffield’s very own I, Monster. Used in about 6 million adverts, but I still love it. No. 97 I, Monster Daydream In Blue #Top100 youtu.be/BBhDaVg1E6Y?...

Top of the Pops (1st March 1984). Wang Chung are at number 42 with Dance Hall Days.

I thought she liked burning hotels.

From America, Mar 1959: Cigars ad from Cigar Institute of America (more at @OldInPrintAds.bsky.social) «A cigar brings out the Caveman in you»

Was ever the case with post/persistent illness patients.

I wonder if this experience will make this type of person think differently about refugees escaping emergency situations.

Happy St David's Day. Don't have nightmares.

For our viewers abroad, this is based on the tune from this advert. We used to sing "Trebor Mints are a minty bit stronger, stick 'em up yer bum and they'll last a bit longer." You are welcome. youtu.be/-0AcOgKi8DQ?...

Lovely Butt Mother Of Groom Virginia, Vital Records, 1715-1912

Clara Goodfarter Mother Kentucky, Deaths, 1911-1967

Prolonged use of chat bots/LLMs is dangerous to health. www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

Obviously it's not funny to laugh at British expats who are being bombed in Dubai having fled there to avoid the violence of Britain, of course it's not, stop it, but a million flowers for "Dynorod Stewart". Exceptional work.

Hang on, I thought Denis Norden presented this??

Oddly enough she’s deleted this.

On a 8am train from Dortmund to Stuttgart (3.5 hours, total price €30) and these lads were drinking pints for €2.50, literally cheaper than my coffee. Another world is possible

I think you mean “panicking immigrants” Ms Oakshott?

Now own a copy of this issue of Films & Filming. I may need to get it framed.

…includes a story on a “gang of wiretappers” in the HQ of the Democratic National Committee.

This reminds me of that Frankie Boyle joke about how Americans not only come to your country and kill your people, they also come back twenty years later to make a movie about how killing your people made their soldiers sad.

US man issues challenge to disprove his claim of having world’s smallest penis to raise micropenis awareness

Harry T Watt England and Wales, Census, 1901

Huggy the Bear.

The last time you had a pair of tits that big hosting, Mick Fleetwood was stood alongside.

I was close

Anyway who wants to see some 1950s football programmes? (And their amazing adverts) OF COURSE YOU DO

CBS News, 1970 - report on Knock/Mayo matchmaking about bachelor farmers in their forties trying to meet younger women @darach.bsky.social - youtu.be/t4fyHXES5UY?...

Vaxxed?

Looking for a job at the BBC? youtu.be/24oCkUc4mHs?...

Remembering the life of football commentator and television presenter Brian Moore who was born #OnThisDate in 1932. Brian passed away in 2001.

#OnThisDay 2016 : 10 years ago today, it was announced that actor Frank Kelly had passed away. Frank was best known for playing Father Jack Hackett in Father Ted.

SHATNER! ‘SINGING’ ROCKET MAN! AGAIN! 🚀🧍‍♂️🖖🏻

CSO Des O'Connor as part of 1970 ATV/NBC show youtu.be/SCI2sBnF_LU?...

Looks like an eighties yuppie.

Sign of the times but when I saw this I attempted to spot any paedos on the cover.

I hate this lot more than I did the last lot. What an incredible achievement, Sir Keir.

Labour minister Josh Simons resigns after falsely linking journalists to ‘pro-Kremlin’ network

One Labour bastard gone(ish). Many more to go. I can't even stand the look of him.

There's also a Climax in Michigan, as famously pointed out by this reporter:

I’m having my worst long Covid day in a long long time. I am battered.

I dread to think how this went down with the proper football blokes on Twatter.